Responsible History

Responsible HistoryI can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct. I endorse Voltaires words quoted in this book: Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Responsible conduct is necessary because irresponsible conduct is dangerous. [From the Foreword.] The abuse of history is common and quite possibly once more on the rise. Although this is well documented,

Modelled on reflective practice

Śaṅkara and the great Abhinavagupta are generally regarded as the two greatest thinkers in the long history of Indian philosophy

Vividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century

This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography

a collaborative effort by scientists

and The Pumpkin Eater

a relatively unknown writer with a gift for the weird and wonderful

the book looks in detail at a number of the underlying assumptions and proposals of the policy activists and finds that there is enormous uncertainty relating both to the economics and to the science of climate change

A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s

and nobility are susceptible to radical change depending upon the angle from which they are viewed

Featuring six works of short fiction

justifying a massive bureaucratic prison complex as scientific and civilized